iOS 7 – Status bar overlaps the view

Xcode 5 has iOS 6/7 Deltas which is specifically made to resolve this issue. In the storyboard, I moved my views 20 pixels down to look right on iOSĀ 7 and in order to make it iOSĀ 6 compatible, I changed Delta y to -20. Since my storyboard is not using auto-layout, in order to resize the … Read more

Cannot hide status bar in iOS7

in your apps plist file add a row call it “View controller-based status bar appearance” and set it to NO Note that this simply does not work, if you are using UIImagePickerController in the app. from http://www.openfl.org/developer/forums/general-discussion/iphone-5ios-7-cant-hide-status-bar/, mgiroux’s solution

Android Completely transparent Status Bar?

All you need to do is set these properties in your theme: <item name=”android:windowTranslucentStatus”>true</item> <item name=”android:windowTranslucentNavigation”>true</item> Your activity / container layout you wish to have a transparent status bar needs this property set: android:fitsSystemWindows=”true” It is generally not possible to perform this for sure on pre-kitkat, looks like you can do it but some strange … Read more

How do I use DrawerLayout to display over the ActionBar/Toolbar and under the status bar?

New functionality in the framework and support libs allow exactly this. There are three ‘pieces of the puzzle’: Using Toolbar so that you can embed your action bar into your view hierarchy. Making DrawerLayout fitsSystemWindows so that it is layed out behind the system bars. Disabling Theme.Material‘s normal status bar coloring so that DrawerLayout can … Read more